> I would prefer to move the vfs_kqfilter and filt_vfs* functions either
> be moved to a vfs specific file, or be moved to their own file.. also,
> it appears that we lost support for extending of files... though I
> can't
> confirm that... Have you verified that extending still gets notified?

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